A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including the California National Guard.
At least 200 federalized California National Guard members were ordered to be deployed to Oregon overnight into Sunday, officials there said, but the same judge who temporarily blocked the administration from deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland on Saturday held a hearing Sunday night and approved another temporary restraining order requested by the attorneys general of California and Oregon.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield on Sunday said they jointly asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to block the deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland.
“The Trump Administration claimed that California National Guard troops were urgently needed to maintain peace in Los Angeles – yet it is sending the entirety of the remaining troops to Oregon without hesitation,” Bonta said in a statement.
At a virtual news conference on Sunday, Rayfield said the two states argued they will “experience irreparable harm” because the deployment of troops “violates state sovereignty and the police powers reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
“What was unlawful yesterday is unlawful today … the judge’s order was not some minor, procedural point for the president to work around,” Rayfield said.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she was aware that 101 federalized California National Guard members arrived at Camp Withycombe in Oregon on Saturday night and that it is her understanding that 99 were ordered.
At the same news conference as Rayfield, the Democratic governor said the troops should be sent home immediately, emphasizing that there’s no insurrection happening in Portland and that people have the right to exercise free speech.
“We have received no official notification or correspondence from the federal government regarding this action by the President,” she said. “This action appears to [be] intentional to circumvent yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge.”
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told CBS News in a statement that, at the direction of the president, about 200 federalized members of the California National Guard were federalized and reassigned to Portland to support ICE and other federal personnel.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson confirmed the deployment, saying, “President Trump exercised his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement.”
The administration has not commented on the second temporary restraining order.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed the state’s 300 National Guard ordered to Oregon had already been federalized in response to unrest in Los Angeles. Before the judge’s Sunday night ruling, Newsom said California personnel were on their way and called the deployment “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”
“The commander-in-chief is using the U.S. military as a political weapon against American citizens,” Newsom said in the statement. “We will take this fight to court, but the public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the president of the United States.”
On Saturday night, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by Mr. Trump during his first term, issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from sending the National Guard. The move came after Mr. Trump said he would send troops to the city to handle “domestic terrorists.“
Immergut said the relatively small protests the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon’s state sovereignty. The restraining order is set to expire on Oct. 18, according to court records.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland has recently been the site of nightly protests.
“The facts haven’t changed. There is no need for military intervention in Oregon,” Kotek said. “There is no insurrection in Portland. No threat to national security. Oregon is our home, not a military target.”
Following the ruling, Jackson indicated an appeal was likely, saying in a statement that “President Trump exercised his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement — we expect to be vindicated by a higher court.”
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National Guard troops also deployed to Illinois
The president has also ordered National Guard members from Texas to be deployed to Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday evening.
In a post on X, Pritzker said that 400 members of the Texas National Guard will be deployed to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the U.S.
“No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops,” Pritzker said, calling Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for and to refuse to coordinate.
In response, Abbott said he “fully authorized” the deployment of his state’s troops “to ensure safety for federal officials.”
Mr. Trump has characterized both Portland and Chicago as cities rife with crime and unrest, calling the former a “war zone” and suggesting apocalyptic force was needed to quell problems in the latter. Since the start of his second term, he has sent or talked about sending troops to 10 cities.
Last month, Mr. Trump signed a presidential memorandum mobilizing federal law enforcement agents to Memphis, Tennessee, at the request of the Tennessee governor.
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